According to the ZDNet interview with Pat Gelsinger, Intel is back on track with their next generation quad core Itanium codenamed Tukwila slated for first realization in late 2008. He mentioned of a different microarchitecture, a different instruction set for Tukwila and is driving for more convergence in Poulson and beyond. He hinted that Poulson will have a common bus like CSI and similar cache architecture which will bridge gap between Core and Itanium. Pat Gelsinger revealed about having homogenous mini cores for lower end product line with some big core cores added for higher end, performance driven applications as well as some special purpose cores for specific applications. Intel is going to discuss in more details about their heterogeneous and homogeneous multicore strategy at IDF in April. Intel will continue to use the new transistor design and materials for 32nm but is looking at a a new structure for 22nm and beyond.

According to the ZDNet interview with Pat Gelsinger, Intel is back on track with their next generation quad core Itanium codenamed Tukwila slated for first realization in late 2008. He mentioned of a different microarchitecture, a different instruction set for Tukwila and is driving for more convergence in Poulson and beyond. He hinted that Poulson will have a common bus like CSI and similar cache architecture which will bridge gap between Core and Itanium. Pat Gelsinger revealed about having homogenous mini cores for lower end product line with some big core cores added for higher end, performance driven applications as well as some special purpose cores for specific applications. Intel is going to discuss in more details about their heterogeneous and homogeneous multicore strategy at IDF in April. Intel will continue to use the new transistor design and materials for 32nm but is looking at a a new structure for 22nm and beyond.